Looking for that perfect last minute gift?  I've got just the thing!  Point your miners to bravo-mining.com and if you find a block before the end of the day tomorrow, you'll get 1.225BTC.  Now that's a nice stocking stuffer!

Preach on, Brother Phil!  I fail to understand why people continue to donate their coins at such an alarmingly high rate.  Maybe they're just so used to paying taxes, that losing 30% seems normal...

Some people just don't understand...

Look at the latest blocks.  Other than the empty block (yes, AntPool is STILL mining empty blocks, even though there are nearly 200k unconfirmed transactions) each block solved by AntPool today has averaged over 4BTC in fees.  Every.  Block.  As of this post, that's 77.14335391BTC AntPool has kept for themselves since the day started.

Let me put that in bold for you:

77.14335391BTC

They've solved 18 blocks so far and generated 225BTC from those solves.

They have kept 34.29% of your earnings.

You guys using and/or promoting AntPool are deluding yourselves and others.  Would you like it if your boss said, "Hey, I'm going to keep an extra 15% of your paychecks"?

That's what AntPool is doing to you.

Stop mining there and putting all that extra coin into their pockets.  Mine on another pool and put that coin in your own.

It'll be a nice stocking stuffer for sure

All,

It's one week to Christmas.  I'm increasing the block finder's bonus.  If you are the next miner to find a block, you will get 1.225BTC bonus.

Merry Christmas and good luck everyone!

I've got 8 of them sitting in my basement... lol.

So, BTC hit $19,000 today.  Let's find that block so I can give somebody a very happy holiday

Hopefully they've calmed down.  My Avalons occasionally let out a few screams, but they settle back down after a few minutes.  I can see that you're hashing away on the pool.  Good luck!

PM me your sign on info (email you use is just fine) and I'll take a look to see if I can spot anything in the database, or the logs.

Every bit of hash helps!  Maybe you'll be the lucky block finder and take home that extra 1BTC bonus

All,

Due to the increased transaction volume and the correspondingly increased transaction fees, I've had to increase the withdrawal fees on the pool.  They are now 0.001BTC per withdrawal request.

If the fees across the network drop back down, then I'll adjust back down as well.

I hate to do this, but the network dictates the increased fees.

Also, please note, the block finder's bonus is there for the taking!  Find our next block and get an extra 1BTC in your pocket from me.

I'l'l have to address the SQL queries to optimize them for the large data sets present in the database.  Until then, I can manually create new workers for you directly in the database.  Check your PMs.

You mean since NH got hacked?

The only one I can think of is MRR (Mining Rig Rentals): https://www.miningrigrentals.com

They most certainly do address it.  It's right on their website:
(I put the bold in there so it's clear).

They have ALWAYS kept your fees.

Bigger means better...

For some reason, people have it in their heads that they need to see a daily income when mining BTC.  I find the concept odd.  You don't get paid daily at your job.  You don't have to pay your electricity daily.  You (likely) don't need to fill your car with fuel daily.

Once people get this concept in their heads, they automatically flock to the biggest pools.  I'll pick on AntPool here, since it is the biggest, which must mean it's the best.  Oh look, they are 0% fee mining!  That's the best ever!!!

Read the fine print.  When AntPool hits a block, they keep the transaction fees.  It's right on their website.  So... that 0% mining really isn't.  Look at the average transaction fees per block.  Today alone after finding 12 blocks so far, AntPool has pocketed over 30BTC.  Those fees are supposed to go to miners.  The very reason those fees exist is because they are to incentivize miners.

This about this another way.  As we continue forward, the block reward diminishes.  It started at 50, then went to 25 and is now 12.5.  Each time the reward diminishes, the fees become more important.  If you stay with AntPool, you continue to make less and less.

So, bigger is not necessarily better.

The change has to start with YOU, and with miners like you.  Because of the "bigger is better" mentality, and the "I need to get paid daily" attitude, people will continue to flock to the big pools.

Hi Scorppro,

You won't see any balance until a block is found.  The balance is unconfirmed until the block matures.

Hope this helps

Anyone lose coin from the NH hack?  Don't know where to point your rigs now?

Try pointing them here!  If you're the one who finds the block, you'll get a 1BTC bonus.  That might help to lessen the sting of loss from the NH hack.

If by invalid share you mean "a share that still conforms to the structure of a share, but doesn't make sense in the context of the work given to the miner", then the pool would just reject your work.  Only valid share submissions are counted towards your rewarded work.  My pool just lumps all non-valid submissions into a single "invalid" category.  When you log into your dashboard, you see your valid shares and your invalid ones.

The penalty?  Invalid shares aren't counted towards your eventual reward.  Let's take an extreme example: you submit 50% valid shares and 50% invalid shares.  The result?  You get half of what you were expecting.

Sure, use AntPool if you want to lose out on a ton of coin.  AntPool does NOT give its miners transaction fees.  Those go right into Bitmain's pockets.  Take a look at the average transaction fees per block.  As a miner, those are YOURS.  It's the entire reason for charging fees - to incentivize miners.  Yet, Bitmain keeps your coin.

Do yourself a favor.  Mine somewhere else.  Lots of other (and quite frankly better run) pool options out there.

LOL Phil... we were saying it was good money at 500... and 1000 was an unrealistic goal.  Now it's near 13k.  What a ride it's been!

That game was fun!  Ton of work on his part, though.